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Salvator Rosa
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Definition:[1615-1673]Italian painter, born near Naples, a man of versatile ability; could write verse and compose music, as well as paint and engrave; his paintings of landscape were of a sombre character, and generally representative of wild and savage scenes; he lived chiefly in Rome, but took part in the insurrection of Masaniello at Naples in 1647.Rev. James Wood. The Nuttall Encyclopaedia (1907)
painting 1: self portrait, (1645) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11883893painting 2: Allegory of Fortune, (1659) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21991372
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I may call myself a patron of the arts. It is my weakness. The landscape is a genuine Corot, and, though a connoisseur might perhaps throw a doubt upon that Salvator Rosa, there cannot be the least question about the Bouguereau. I am partial to the modern French school.
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of the Four
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The silence and freshness of the night, the occasional sharp cry of the wood-hen, the ruddy glow of the fire, the subdued rushing of the river, the sombre forest, and the immediate foreground of our saddles packs and blankets, made a picture worthy of a Salvator Rosa or a Nicolas Poussin.
Samuel Butler. Erewhon
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